摘要 |
The analysis of the focal changes in the morphology of a tissue such as cartilage is completed through statistical parametric mapping by first detecting the amount of thickness changes; followed by the point by point estimation of the variance in the thickness delta estimation. Once the change and the variance are estimated, the z-map is computed. The z-map is used to compute single change parameters. i.e: volume significant change, area of significant change, average thickness of the significant changes, and D values from the probability distributions. That can be used for treatment decisions.
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